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John H. Holland
Born
in Fort Wayne, Indiana, The United States
February 02, 1929
Died
August 09, 2015
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“Current studies of networks (Newman, Barabasi, and Watts 2006) using notions of community and synchrony within subgroups help to make the niche concept more precise. However, it is noteworthy that few network studies concentrate on the formation of boundaries within a network. And there is even less study of mechanisms for the formation of hierarchies—mechanisms that would explain the pervasiveness of hierarchies in natural systems.”
― Signals and Boundaries: Building Blocks for Complex Adaptive Systems
― Signals and Boundaries: Building Blocks for Complex Adaptive Systems
“The diversity of 'cas'(complex adaptive systems) is a dynamic patter, often persistent and coherent like the standing wave we alluded to earlier. If you disturb the wave, say with a stick or paddle, the wave quickly repairs itself once the disturbance is removed. Similarly in 'cas', a pattern of interactions disturbed by the extinction of component agents often reasserts itself, though the new agents may differ in detail from the old. There is, however, a crucial difference between the standing wave pattern and 'cas' patterns: 'cas' patterns evolve. The diversity observed in 'cas' is the product of progressive adaptations. Each new adaptation opens the possibility for further interactions and new niches.”
― Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity
― Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity
